In shakespeare's play, the tempest, the character caliban is a native of an island that is now controlled by the sorcerer prospero. he acts as prospero's servant. in this excerpt, caliban confronts prospero. caliban. . when thou camest first, thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give mewater with berries in't, and teach me howto name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night: and then i loved theeand show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: cursed be i that did so! all the charmsof sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! what can be inferred about the character of caliban based on his description of "the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile"? a. he feels superior to his audience. b. he is a stranger in this place. c. he is knowledgeable about nature. d. he is formally educated.

C.He is knowledgeable about nature.  

Explanation:

Caliban is the antagonist of the sage Prospero. He is described as a rude, wicked and ignorant savage who rebels against his master. Shakespeare's Caliban is not one-dimensional nor simple. It has a natural and wild power and its own right.

The excerpt exposed in the question shows a part of the confrontation between Prospero and Caliban is the most dramatic of all oppositions of the play. In this excerpt, when Caliban speaks "the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile" shows that he is knowledgeable about nature.

for me, balancing all your work/homework is the hardest part in high school and the exams.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.